Safety slip-on server



Sept. 12, 1933. O F 1,926,481

SAFETY SL1 P-ON SERVER Filed June 21, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l CL 3 i Inventor Sept. 12, 1933. o. L. FOX

SAFETY SLIP-ON SERVER Filed June 21, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 f lnuenlor Owe 7 l Z 529 Bpfl . Patented 'Sept. 12, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,926,481" SAFETY SLIP-N SERVER Owen L. Fox, Sardis, Miss. j g Application June 21, 1932. Serial No. 618,558 1 2,0lai1ns. (ol. 65- -53) The present invention relates to an appliance in the form of an attachment for an ordinary serving waiter or tray and has for its prime object to provide an attachment of this nature which may be easily slipped on the waiter or tray for the rangement of parts as will be hereinafter more 29 fully described and claimed. In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a device embodying the features of my invention showing the same applied to a tray, r v 5 I Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is an end elevation thereof, and

Figure 4 is a plan view of a blank from which the device is constructed.

Referring to the drawings in detail it will be seen that the letter T denotes an ordinary waiter or tray provided with the usual bead edges B.

My attachment is formed from a single sheet of metal or the like bent so as to provide arectangular top plate 5 with a plurality of openings 6 therein. From opposite sides of this .plate 5 there depend side plates 7 merging into curved flanges 8 for sliding on the beads B. Depending downwardly from the other opposed edges of the plate 5 are end plates 9 formed with rectangular 0 openings 10.

It will be quite apparent that the attachment" may be easily and quickly slipped on to the tray With the above and numerous other objects in andthat bottles, glasses and other containers may be placed in the openings 6 to rest on the tray and .be preventedfrom easily slipping, sliding or upsetting and spilling the contents thereof. The. appliance may be slippedon and off as the user desires and although it is designed especially for use in making service of drinks and/or sandwiches to occupants of automobiles, it is of gen-'- eral service alsojfl.

The present embodiment of the invention has been described in considerable detail merely for the purposes of exemplification since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage I enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and theabove description.- It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and ar-v rangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed 'or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim. as new is:

V .1. In combination with a serving tray having upwardly and outwardly sloping sides, and a bead on the upper edges of said sides, a plate having openings therein for receiving portions of articles placed on the tray and side plates depending from a pair of opposed edg'es'of the plate and having their lower ends formed with curved portions for v engaging portions of the'bead at opposite sides of the tray. h r

2. An attachment for a serving tray comprising a flat plate having openings therein," sidev plates depending from opposite sides of the plate and having their lower ends formed with curved flanges for engaging portions of the bead of the serving tray, and a pairof depending plates connected with the other sides of the plate and hav ing openings therein.

' OWEN L FOX. 

